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Zidane Head Butt Statue
Anyone who watches soccer, or even if they don’t, remembers French legend Zinedine Zidane ending his career at the 2006 World Cup with a shocking head butt to Italian defender Marco Materazzi’s chest. It was a bizarre moment I’m sure he’d like to forget, so it might come as a bit of a surprise that ...
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Awesome Pushpin Portrait
Imagine pushing over twenty thousand pushpins into a cork board to create a image. Known for his beautiful pushpin portraits, that’s exactly what Michigan based artist Eric Daigh has done with his portrait of Pinterest founder and CEO Ben Silbermann. I can’t imagine how long this took the poor guy.
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Self Portrait A Day On Drugs
In 1995, artist Bryan Lewis Saunders decided that he was going to draw a self portrait a day for the rest of his life. After a few portraits he began to look for a way to affect his perception of himself. That’s where the drugs came in. Over 8,000 portraits later, here are just a ...
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Awesome Flat Clock Poster
I’m not sure I know of anyone who still uses an alarm clock, that’s what mobile phones are for, but if you still find an extremely loud electronic buzzer a soothing way to wake up, this is for you. It’s called Flat Time, and it’s pretty damn cool. It’s an image of an alarm clock ...
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Cloud Made Of Light Bulbs
On September 15th as part of Nuit Blanche Calgary, artist Caitland r.c. Brown created an awesome large scale installation called CLOUD. The piece is made with 1000 working light bulbs on pull-chains and another 5000 burnt out lights donated by the public. Visitors can pull the chains causing the cloud to sort
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Coasters For Cokeheads
I’m not exactly someone who uses coasters all that often, I like making the Olympic rings with my glass sweat, but after seeing these bad boys I might have to start. Artist Nir Hod has created this set of four mirrored coaster, called The Night You Left, that have been digitally printed with little white ...
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Amazing Urban Street Art
If you like clever street art as much as I do, you’re going to love this. Isaac Cordal has created these awesome street art portraits by customizing metal kitchen strainers and placing them in urban areas so that street lights will cast shadows of faces onto the sidewalk. The resulting portraits almost seem three dimensional. ...
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Cool Art By Pedestrians
With pollution and over crowding a huge problem, an innovative marketing and branding firm working alongside the China Environmental Protection Foundation has created an ambitious art-in-action piece to remind city dwellers of the benefits of walking. White canvases, pre-painted with a leafless tree
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Giant Spiders Overtake Roof
Seattle artist and science illustrator Marlin Peterson was recently commissioned by the Washington State Parks Commission to paint a mural somewhere in the city. After having trouble finding a big enough wall, he decided to look for a large roof and where would a painting on a roof be more visiable than